Not trying to be mean or anything, but good luck finding one for cheap. Unless you're parents are about to drop $50,000+ on a CLASSIC car for you to WRECK and beat the shit out of. Get a honda/mustang/shitbox, well the keyword here is Cheap. Get something cheap, beat the shit out of it, and save your pennies for your classic.

Holy cow, literally I drove past one of the dealerships here in town and literally every car there was a late 90s early 2000s Pontiac something or other. To add on to that, nearly everyone in town also drives a Pontiac. What is this?

Honda Civic is your best bet then, parts/maintenance is dirt cheap, and most civics get 30+mpg. It's nothing special and everyone and their mom owns one, though, so it's something you should only get if the only things you care about is gas consumption/cheap price

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Basically any Civic with an engine displacement of less than two litres gets at least 30 mpg, the civics with 2.0+ get a bit less (24-29)

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I have $700 right now, the dart shares the same windshield with a barracuda so I have that covered, I have a 727 trans and my grandpas 383 so I have a good drag drive-train, I have a drag shifter and a console so I dont have to use the column shifter, parts cuda shares the same rear end, I have some good seats lying around, should be good if I can get my dad convinced to get it, I can probably run it as is with some paint restorer or whatever if not primer it. Cant decide between black or red with a black vinyl roof. Agree for black disagree for red I guess.

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The paint is in amazing condition and the way its painted it didn't come like that factory so it has to have been painted before. Was probably some guys mid 80s muscle car that he just left, the chrome is also really nice.

It's almost scary powerful. The slightest bit of pedal makes it feel like the engine is trying to rip itself from the chassis and take off, leaving me sitting there in the seat like some sort of crazy cartoon. I have been babying it and still almost got it sideways pulling out of the carwash. Dat LSD/torque!

I'm incredibly happy with it. Hell of a motor, hell of a car, still have some bugs to work out but it's getting there!

It's almost scary powerful. The slightest bit of pedal makes it feel like the engine is trying to rip itself from the chassis and take off, leaving me sitting there in the seat like some sort of crazy cartoon. I have been babying it and still almost got it sideways pulling out of the carwash. Dat LSD/torque!

I'm incredibly happy with it. Hell of a motor, hell of a car, still have some bugs to work out but it's getting there!

I'm actually really digging that vette brad. Always been into them, not just that gen specifically but any vette.

Unrelated, i dicked around with the retractor motor fuse last night at about 1Am after cruising through the night and got this, makes the car look more...personalized? idk. I like it regardless. Anyways:

Before:

After:

Ignore the paint lines, it's just because the car was dirty when i laid the tape down, I'm not that bad at painting :/

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Just needs a wash is all, but with the storm coming in this sunday it's not really worth it, 60 MPH gusts of nothing but pure dirt, and no garage? Nah.

It's almost scary powerful. The slightest bit of pedal makes it feel like the engine is trying to rip itself from the chassis and take off, leaving me sitting there in the seat like some sort of crazy cartoon. I have been babying it and still almost got it sideways pulling out of the carwash. Dat LSD/torque!

I'm incredibly happy with it. Hell of a motor, hell of a car, still have some bugs to work out but it's getting there!

It's almost scary powerful. The slightest bit of pedal makes it feel like the engine is trying to rip itself from the chassis and take off, leaving me sitting there in the seat like some sort of crazy cartoon. I have been babying it and still almost got it sideways pulling out of the carwash. Dat LSD/torque!

I'm incredibly happy with it. Hell of a motor, hell of a car, still have some bugs to work out but it's getting there!

I don't normally like American cars, but that is very nice. Cleaned up really well.

I drained my not so used transmission oil when I swapped engine, it's the 60$ expensive fully synthetic sort that I don't want to waste (read: I changed it twice before the winter (b4 the storage) because of clutch work).

Could I just use a coffee filter to filter the big crap and pour it into the tranny again. I understand why I would never do that with a old oil but this one is almost brand new, the chemical are still fine arent they?

Speaking of oil, my friend drove his mustang without oil, was supposed to check it 1 month ago c:
his dad told him to change it
i reminded him as well
CARS TOO COLD
TOO HOT
TOO COLD OUT
NAH
ITS GOOD
tonight he got home and his engine was spewing white smoke

If the oil has like no miles on it like you're saying then i don't see how it would hurt anything. I don't think it degrades over time, i could be wrong though.

that's what I'm thinking too, I'm basically reusing the same oil that has less than two weeks of uses.
The coffee filter filtering is to be sure there is no crap from being drained in the same pan (although it was clean) that I use for my oil change.

I drained my not so used transmission oil when I swapped engine, it's the 60$ expensive fully synthetic sort that I don't want to waste (read: I changed it twice before the winter (b4 the storage) because of clutch work).

Could I just use a coffee filter to filter the big crap and pour it into the tranny again. I understand why I would never do that with a old oil but this one is almost brand new, the chemical are still fine arent they?

Is it really worth risking $1000+ for $60? Seems like there would be a shitload of contaminants, depending on how you stored it